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The faster the armies drove through Germany the happier grew the U.S. Senate. By the time Jimmy Byrnes had quit his job as War Mobilizer, after explaining that V-E day was now in sight (see below), Senators in both parties were beaming. Now was the time to face the...
In the east wing of the White House one day last week, Jimmy Byrnes stood by while his longtime friend, Judge Fred M. Vinson, took the oath of office for the job Byrnes had just left: Director of the Office of War Mobilization and reConversion.
The collapse of Germany, said Byrnes, would be the signal for initiating a whopping $30 billion cut in Government war spending-from the current yearly rate of about $90 billion down to $60 billion. Along with this, U.S. people could look forward to:
¶ Women must still wait for nylons (Byrnes's explanation: "When I thought we had all the nylon we needed for parachutes, I found we needed it for tires. Then, when we found we had all we needed for tires, we were told that cotton netting used in the...
General Clay's appointment-requested by his friend Eisenhower-relieved an awkward situation in Washington. For four months West Pointer Clay, a hard-driving engineering officer and supply expert, had been Jimmy Byrnes's right-hand man in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. A stern believer...